The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-14


commissioners. A FRIEND.
Lieut-Gov. Robertson's Signature to Laws.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
In order to brace mp the Green Smith gang OF
greasers Governor Gray took occasion to send
message to the House in reference to the sigma
ture of Lieutenant governor Robertson to the
soldiers monument bill, in which he stated that
the bill would be jeopordzed thereby. How
neatly the pins are knocked from under him the
following, from Judge Niblacks opinion on re-
hearing. will show:
"If An act of the present General Assembly.
whether passed a. the regular or some special
session, shall come before US. signed by the ap-
pellant, on behalf of the Senate and otherwise
duly certified and approved it will be duty
to assume that the appellant was, at the time he
affixed his signature. the acting and qualified
Northumberland of the State, and that he
had been recognized by the two houses of the
General Assembly. D. O. J.
LoGANsPoRT, Ind, March II.
The State Soldiers and Sailors Monument.
To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal:
Now that the monument bill is law, will you
permit space in your columns for outlining de-
sign for the that meets the approval OF
everyone to whom the writer has suggested it
design which fully combines the idea of a
monument in appearance and in which memo
rial hall can be located of sufficient size to
commodate the annual delegate meetings of the
Grand Army encampment while it exists, or the
delegate meetings of any other military organ
ization in the State for business or reunion pur
poses for ages to come
The writer neither draw a pen picture nor
| a charcoal sketch, but if all who visit our new
State-house will walk round the rotunda and ex-
anime Its outlines and proportions. l think they
will have presented plan for structure that
| will eclipse anything of the kind on this CONT
| nent for a monument and hall combined. Take
that design and place it where the law now fixes
| its location, the centre of Circle Park tchange
| the name to Monument Park, and we shall have
| something to look at and show for our money
| that will be matter of pride to Indian
| ians, and will be admired by visitors from all
| sections of country and of foreign lands
The square OF the rotunda is about 100 feet, out
| side measurement. Does not look at its
| grand columns and magnificent arches. which
| could be filed in with heavy colored glass.
| into which the eagle and flag and
star could be worked, with other designs
that will preserve for thousand
! Army of the Republic. suggest a four
| square monumental hall? At the four entrances
to the same l would place in front of each
grand portco, suggested by the surroundings
| of the rotunda. On the ground floor I would
have set in the walls of the structure tab
let for each county in our State, of whitest mar
BILE. on which should be engraved the name of
each and every officer and soldier lost during the
i war from each and every county. The ground
floor. if it may be 30 designated, to be entirely
| open for the free passage of the peo-
| pie through the monument from the
| four quarters of the city, provided in
| the plan of the Circle. With the names of
| our fallen comrades preserved and perpetu-
! ated in this way, this structure will be visited
| by their descendants for generations to come.
! and patriotism that will defend and die for
Lo1n - l,zk IL. \
| boy of hundred years hence looks on these
names and points out with pride to others the
name of ancestor that honorable roll.
This design will give space and opportunity for
| this, which shaft only, of the conventional
style. would not On the points of tho four
| portieoes at the entrance thereof, l would write
| on the south these words blow ye south
| winds softly these names, that they may
| live forever" On the north entrance | would
write. I'VE forgive, but do not forget" On the
east would write, FRATERNITY, charity, 10y
atty" On the west I would writs. ''They died
that the Nation might live" Also, let the
names of the principal battles in which Indiana
troops participated be engraved on the body OF
the monument on the outside thereof. The
approaches to the hall above should be provided
by means OF stone starways on the
outside of the same placed on each side of the
four grand porticoes. The hall, on the inside
from the first floor to the dome, should be lined
with white marble, and we should engrave or
the walls thereof the names of Lincoln, Stanton
| Grant, MEADE. Hancock, HOOKER, IhomaS. Far
rarut, Mcclellan Mcpherson, Logan and the
name of our own loved HackemaL, in letter;
of gold Changing the form of the dome some
what, I would place on the outside o.
the same, as supports and finishing
pieces, column TO. each State. with the
the name engraved thereon. This will repre-
sent the Union as we'll, and over all, as tn.
finishing and crown piece Of this monumen
and memorial hall. would place heroic statue
of private soldier, fully equipped for war
graspine his musket with one hand and with tn,
other holding aloft flagstaff. from which tn,
flag of our country should float every day in thu
year forever. In the composition of the com
mission provided by the act, now law thank
to his Excellency Governor Gray, one of sal,
commissioners should be taken from Indianapo
lis, the center and the remaining four from thu
four quarters of the State and then our com
rades and citizens will feel that all sections o
our great Commonwealth have been fairly repre-
sented The Morton statue need not necessarily
be removed from the Circle, but the writer sug
gests that at the east front of the State house
, the proper place for it, now that the Indiana sol
, ders' and sailors monument is assured fac,
TERRE HAUTE, March TO- G. A POWER
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